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Affright vs Deject - What's the difference?

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Affright is a related term of deject.


As verbs the difference between affright and deject

is that affright is to terrify, to frighten, to inspire fright while deject is make sad or dispirited.

As a noun affright

is great fear, terror, fright.

affright

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • great fear, terror, fright

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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to terrify, to frighten, to inspire fright
  • * Shakespeare
    • Dreams affright our souls.
  • * Milton
    • A drear and dying sound / Affrights the flamens at their service quaint.

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    deject

    English

    Verb

  • Make sad or dispirited.
  • * Benjamin Franklin
    • I pitied poor Miss Read's unfortunate situation. She was generally dejected , seldom cheerful, and avoided company.
  • (obsolete) To cast down.
  • * Udall
    • Christ dejected himself even unto the hells.
  • * Fuller
    • Sometimes she dejects her eyes in a seeming civility; and many mistake in her a cunning for a modest look.

    Quotations

    * 1927 Harold Victor Routh: God, Man, & Epic Poetry: A Study in Comparative Literature [http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC03459385&id=fx8LAAAAMAAJ&q=dejects&dq=dejects&pgis=1] (page 215) *: Vergil succeeds in filling Hades with all that depresses and dejects in his world, so that Aeneas encounters the causes of Augustan pessimism. * 1933 Arthur Melville Jordan: Educational Psychology (page 60) [http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC00764755&id=U6cQm3IcVHcC&q=%22there+is+nothing+which+dejects+school+children+quite+so+%22&dq=%22there+is+nothing+which+dejects+school+children+quite+so+%22&pgis=1] *: On the other hand, there is nothing which dejects school children quite so much as failure.

    Derived terms

    * dejected * dejection